Ontario crowned tornado capital of Canada, weather investigators say [Video]

Ontario has now been crowned the tornado capital of Canada.

Most recently, a funnel cloud was spotted forming over the City of Brantford during a late afternoon storm on Saturday. 

The Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP), a group of weather investigators and researchers based out of Western University in London, say most funnel clouds have the potential to form into a tornado.

“In this case, thankfully, just the funnel cloud,” said David Sills, NTP’s executive director. “There was the rotation aloft, but nothing strong enough at the surface to cause damage as far as we can tell.”

It was a startling sight for Michael Lee who had just gotten home from shopping when he first saw the cloud formation.

“I wasn’t scared because I know what to do, but still, it was amazing to sit there and watch this thing and it was maybe five or six blocks away by the …